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To: ex con
Ex con you state,

"Roe vs Wade was a judicial raping of the Constitution."

You need to be careful with this type of statement. Let me explain why.

Justice Blackmun was correct when he wrote in the majority opinion that the 9th amendment contained the right to privacy and it was not to be denied or disparaged by any government.

Justice Blackmun was incorrect in his assumption that a fetus is part of a woman's body, similar to an arm or a kidney, in which a woman had exclusive ownership over and thus cannot exert the right to privacy over.

This is the incorrect assumption, when a fetus is life, in which Roe v Wade has be incorrectly decided, not the constitutionality of the right to privacy.

When in fact a fetus is a separate human being, a temporary inhabitant of woman's body, in which she cannot make on her own.

This fact is acknowledged by Justice Blackmun simply because he states that after the first trimester, abortions can be prohibited.

Just as you want the current Justice's to read the "figgin" Constitution, the way it was written for the second amendment, you should want the Justice's to read the 9th amendment in the same way.

The 9th amendment is a very important amendment because it is the protection we have from our government telling us to wear seat belts in autos; not to smoke in restaurants; not to drink alcohol in our autos; donate our organs to whomever and whenever; die when we want to; consume the chemicals of your choice; consume the food of our choice, etc, etc.

38 posted on 05/26/2002 5:01:10 PM PDT by tahiti
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